Comments on: The day a light aircraft will crash on a nuclear site… http://www.plasticpilot.net/blog/2008/06/06/the-day-a-light-aircraft-will-crash-on-a-nuclear-site/ General Aviation and Aviation In General Sun, 14 Mar 2010 09:23:43 +0100 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.5 hourly 1 By: PlasticPilot http://www.plasticpilot.net/blog/2008/06/06/the-day-a-light-aircraft-will-crash-on-a-nuclear-site/comment-page-1/#comment-3873 PlasticPilot Sat, 07 Jun 2008 17:00:49 +0000 http://www.plasticpilot.net/blog/2008/06/06/the-day-a-light-aircraft-will-crash-on-a-nuclear-site/#comment-3873 Thank you Jess for bringing this previous incident back from the archives. Reading the link you posted really shows how things changed. Can you even imagine a quote like the following one today ? "It was unclear Monday whether the Secret Service has a specific plan to deal with an airborne attack. Secret Service officials declined to answer questions on the matter." Not exactly. Thank you Jess for bringing this previous incident back from the archives. Reading the link you posted really shows how things changed.

Can you even imagine a quote like the following one today ? “It was unclear Monday whether the Secret Service has a specific plan to deal with an airborne attack. Secret Service officials declined to answer questions on the matter.”

Not exactly.

]]> By: Jess Sightler http://www.plasticpilot.net/blog/2008/06/06/the-day-a-light-aircraft-will-crash-on-a-nuclear-site/comment-page-1/#comment-3861 Jess Sightler Sat, 07 Jun 2008 03:40:31 +0000 http://www.plasticpilot.net/blog/2008/06/06/the-day-a-light-aircraft-will-crash-on-a-nuclear-site/#comment-3861 Indeed, the results of hitting a nuclear installation with a light airplane would be similar to the guy that hit the white house some years ago (during the Clinton administration): From: http://www-tech.mit.edu/V114/N40/crash.40w.html "As it turned out, a patch of lawn, a holly hedge and an old magnolia tree were all that slowed down the airplane as it hurtled toward the home of the president." Of course, the plants were more than enough to stop the little Cessna 150 from harming anyone in that case as well. Fortunately light GA aircraft pose an extremely small threat to structures such as these. Indeed, the results of hitting a nuclear installation with a light airplane would be similar to the guy that hit the white house some years ago (during the Clinton administration):

From: http://www-tech.mit.edu/V114/N40/crash.40w.html
”As it turned out, a patch of lawn, a holly hedge and an old magnolia tree were all that slowed down the airplane as it hurtled toward the home of the president.”

Of course, the plants were more than enough to stop the little Cessna 150 from harming anyone in that case as well. Fortunately light GA aircraft pose an extremely small threat to structures such as these.

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